Technology - New Discoveries, Research, Studies And Breakthroughs

Curious about recent discoveries and breakthroughs in the tools, machines, methods and applications that can be used to solve real-world problems and challenges? Want the most interesting news and updates relating to our developing new ways to interact with our world and manage our lives? We cover them here.

Prosthetics have always offered the amputee their own set of advantages
and disadvantages. Although providing limb mobility, artificial limbs
usually come with phantom pain; that is, until now with the advent of a
new prosthetic limb created at the University of Linz in northern
Austria. Read on for more about this amazing medical innovation.

Cameron Bowen, a recent Royal College of Art graduate, has developed the Parametric Tape Measure, which blends the world of fashion with technology by enabling tailors to generate digital fabric patterns and simultaneously maintain the intimacy of the fitting process.Read on to learn more.

A new era of ‘social giving’ has entered our zeitgeist. Fundraising is no longer an activity practiced solely by wealthy
philanthropists. Folks who have a passion for giving don’t have to be
members of the elite, the likes of the Bill Gates or the Jimmy Buffets
of this world. Today’s social networking is providing folks of lesser
means with a conduit to working for the greater good.

Have you ever wanted Samantha from Her without all the nagging or Siri without having to press a button? Well, now you can with Amazon Echo's Alexa, the cloud-based voice service that does it all. Featuring a free companion app, Echo keeps working even when you're away from home.

Swiss aviators Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg are flying around the world in a plane using only solar power, and they have just completed the most challenging leg of the journey. The 4,480 mile trip over the Pacific Ocean required 117 hours and 52 minutes of flying time and broke records in both distance and duration of solar-powered flight.

Diabetes is an extremely common group of metabolic disorders with approximately 387 million sufferers worldwide in 2014. Type 1 diabetes, the more severe form, stems from a failure of the pancreas to produce sufficient insulin. It often must be treated by regular injections of the hormone, a not entirely pleasant state of affairs for sufferers and one that is not always reliable. Now researchers have found a new way to deliver insulin that’s both painless and practical using a patch covered in microneedles.

A new concept for running shoes concerning proto-cell technology has been created by London designer and researcher, Shamees Aden. 3-D printed from synthetic biological material, these shoes have the capacity to repair themselves overnight. Read on for more on these amazing future wearables.

Bioethicists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have started considering the programming of self-driving cars faced with inevitable crash situations and have come up with worrying ethical dilemmas. In an unavoidable crash, will your car be programmed to sacrifice you in order to save more strangers in nearby vehicle? Who can be responsible for making such a call?

These innovative soft robotic tentacles could prove to be ideal for delicate microscopic surgery. They can pick up an ant without damage to its body, offering new promise to invasive surgical procedures such as the safe and intricate manipulation of blood vessels or embryos.